CAS-PY555  Cosmological Physics

PY555 - Cosmological Physics - covers the basic theory underlying modern Cosmology. We will cover the geometry and dynamics of the universe, the thermal history of the universe, inflation, cosmological perturbation theory, structure formation, and the origin of initial perturbations from quantum fluctuations. The course will be based on the "Cosmology" notes by Daniel Baumann. For a lightning introduction to GR basics you may find Sean Carroll's "No-Nonsense" GR notes useful.

The syllabus.

Lecture notes: 1/22, 1/24+27, 1/29, 1/31, 2/03+05, 2/07, 2/10, 2/12+14, 2/18, 2/19, 2/21+24, 2/26+28, 3/03+05, 3/07, 3/17+19, 3/21, 3/24+26, 3/28, 3/31, 4/02, MPS paper, 4/04+07, 4/09, 4/11+14, BAO movie keynote, powerpoint, 4/16, 4/18, 4/23+25, BICEP/Keck PRL2021, Hubble_tension, BAO galaxy-galaxy correlations

Problem sets:

hw1 due Wednesday, 01/29 (solutions)
hw2 due Wednesday, 02/05 (solutions)
hw3 due Wednesday, 02/12 (solutions)
hw4 due Wednesday, 02/19 (solutions)
hw5 due Wednesday, 02/26 (solutions)
hw6 due Wednesday, 03/05 (solutions)
hw7 due Wednesday, 03/19 (solutions)
hw8 due Wednesday, 03/26 (solutions)
hw9 due Wednesday, 04/09 (mathematica notebook) (mathematica notebook pdf) (Ma and Bertschinger paper) (solutions)
hw10 due Wednesday, 04/16 (solutions)
hw11 due Wednesday, 04/23 (solutions) (BAO Mathematica Notebook)
hw12 due Wednesday, 04/30 (solutions) Mathematica




Url: http://physics.bu.edu/~schmaltz/PY555